NEWS: Nuclear startups pursue side profits from offshoot products

Some nuclear startups are funding their long road to commercial power by selling offshoot products—from life sciences to supercomputing cables. (Axios)

  • TerraPower, founded by Bill Gates, is scaling up production of a cancer drug ingredient it discovered by accident—creating revenue that could help fund its first advanced reactor in Wyoming, now delayed to 2030.

  • SHINE Technologies sells its fusion energy to the defense sector for up to $200K/kWh.

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